The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-09-08
THE GREENBACKERS
The. Assemble in state Convention
but Make no Nominations.
An Address Rcriete With IamcH
table r'acts is Issued to tie
Farmers and LaEcrers.
In Which The. and Ike Business
Men are Urged 10 Hold Il
Convention and Name
Il Ticket.

stIttI
Il Ticket.
DE.MoINEs, Sept. 1.-The green.
back state convention yesterday
adopted the following address. and
then adjourned without making
nominations.
To THE FARMERS AND IABORING
PEOPLE or THE STATE OF Iowa:
The union labor and greenback
parties of Iowa. in convention as
sembIed submit the following al
dress and resolutions for your con-
sideration:
We are about to again choose
members of the legislature. governor
and other officials, and the legisla-
ture chosen will select IL United
States senator. 1t is the duty Of the
whole people to act thoughtfully and
earnestly in this emergency. The
Republican party has controlled the
| legislature Of Iowa for about quar-.
ter of century. and under the ma
nipulation of lobbyists and monopo-
lists the following among other inn
portant bills. were voted down by
the last general assembly:
The nonresident alien land bill.
The casSatt screen bill.
Bill to abolish truck stores,
Bill for a more just system of taxa
ton and assessments.
Bill to reduce interest and compel
the mortgage owner to pay his share
of the taxes.
Bill to prohibit free passes to state
officials.
Bill providing for the election OF
railroad commissioners by the popu-
lar vote. and empowering them to
fix the maximum rate of Transports
ton.
They gerrvmandered the state into
congressional, senatorial and legis-
lative districts and have given the
minority of the voters the control of
the legislature and the election of
the United States senator.
The reforms aimed at by these bills
have all been promised repeatedly by
the republican party in state plat
forms. The promise is only made 70
deceive the voters: that party is
again before the people making the
same seductive pledges. but those
who annually violated their word
must not be longer thus trusted.
The farmers and other producers
Of Iowa are suffering more than ever
from unjust legislation and the lack
Of needed laws. The rural districts
OF this rich state are actually losing
population. The burdens Of taxation
and official salaries are constantly
increasing. The financial system of
contraction and money boarding is
producing its natural inevitable re-
suit Ill first mortgaging and then
bankrupting the country. Dear mon
ey, cheap labor and cheap produce
has been the motto Of congress and
the Iowa legislature until at last
three fourths of the farms Of the
state are mortgaged TO non-residents
at high rate OF interest and our
farmers are practically serfs. The
railroad system, which should be
. he Al ~ .fH
has become through stock watering,
rebates and enormous charges an
actual curse.
Other abuses too numerous to
mention are making the conditions
actually intolerable and no longer
endurable.
Believing u we do that the far
mers and laborers of Iowa now real
ize their desperate condition and are
only prevented from united and
successful effort TO overthrow their
enemies by party prejudice and par
ty spirit; that by placing ticket in
the field this convention could not
hope to secure immediate relief and
to unite the people i'll ole general
partisan effort that shall sweep the
state, therefore
Resolved. That we endorse, ratify
and adopt the Union Labor platform
adopted at Cincinnati and at Mar
snalitown. We recommend to the
farmer and the other industrial class
es to immediately call state con-
yention which shall be independent
and non-partisan, for the purpose Of
nominating an independent ticket,
to be followed by similar movements
i'm the senatorial districts, and in tiae
event such ticket H. placed before
the people, which shall be satisfac-
tory to the state committee selected
by this convention, We pledge il our
hearty support, and especially urge
the Union Labor and greenDack
voters and farmers and business Eien
Of the state, TO earnestly support the
action Of such independent conven-
tion